PARAMUS — The owner of a Sunoco gas station on Route 4 east has been charged with extorting money and property from an employee, and locking him in a bathroom, officials said Wednesday.

The gas station owner, Huseyien Ender, 50, was free Wednesday after posting bail and denied the charges in a brief telephone interview, calling them “a mistake.”

“It’s completely false,” Ender said. “I can tell you that much. It’s a mistake, and we will handle it.”

Ender, who lives in Palisades Park, was charged with extortion, criminal restraint and terroristic threats, Lt. John Scully of the Paramus police said in a statement.

Ender, who was arrested on Nov. 15, was sent to the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack, where his bail was set at $100,000, Scully said. Ender posted bail and was released the next day, according to jail records.

Ender allegedly threatened the employee, who was not identified by authorities, over several months to get him to turn over money, jewelry and other property, and once locked him in the basement of the Sunoco at 344 Route 4 east.

Scully said police recovered money, jewelry and other items belonging to the victim after Ender was arrested. Authorities did not provide other details about what they recovered, or about the nature of Ender’s alleged threats.